New Divide · Linkin Park

121 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and floor tom.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 34-53 and 70-84, and 2 more places -- 68.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 118 BPM
NEW DIVIDE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 10 sections: 100 keep time and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-97.

PART S1
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
OUTRO
7 groovesCDES1S9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Divide?

118 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is New Divide hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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